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A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe. Hobart.

A spire rising from a tower. [Local, Eng.]

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.

; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

e Greenwich . . . shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone. Stow.

idate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

e by fortification; to protect. Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armed With rising towers. Glover.

A fortified town. [Obs.]

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

onnected words. It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women. Shak. Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. Shak.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

enth of a nautical mile). -- Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. -- Submarine…

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.